Tag: Git

Tech News Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Your Username Isn't Anonymous, And That Should Scare You Into Better Practices

I got doxed once. Not severely, but enough that I woke up to a Slack message from a friend saying, "Hey, is this your address on the internet?" It was. Someone had connected my GitHub profile to a StackOverflow answer to a random forum post to a Zillow listing in about twenty min...

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Career Growth Git

Web Development Jul 22, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Installing Postgres Locally, Docker Changed How I Setup Development

I spent three years installing and reinstalling PostgreSQL directly on my machine. Each project had its own version pinned somewhere in a README I'd eventually lose. One day I'd upgrade locally for Project A, break Project B's migration scripts, then spend two hours figuring out...

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Git CI/CD

Programming Jul 21, 2026 • 4 min read

The Real Problem with AI Coding Tools (It's Not What You Think)

Three months ago, I was working with Cursor on a fresh project. The AI was genuinely impressive, it understood my codebase, suggested clean solutions, and saved me hours. By week two, I was frustrated enough to close the IDE and just write the code myself.

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Git CI/CD

DevOps & Cloud Jul 11, 2026 • 4 min read

Learning DevOps in Public: Why I'm Finally Doing This Too

I spent three years as a full-stack developer in Islamabad before I realized I was doing DevOps without a safety net. I'd deploy to production using SSH, manage databases through hastily written scripts, and pray that my server configuration would survive the next restart. When s...

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Career Growth Kubernetes

Career & Growth Jul 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Why Open Source Selection Programs Matter More Than You Think (And Why Your Project Needs Them)

I got an email last week about a junior developer who wanted to contribute to one of my projects. They had the skills, the enthusiasm, but zero idea how to structure a pull request that wouldn't get buried in our GitHub issues. That's when I realized something: we've been doing o...

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Git

DevOps & Cloud Jul 8, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Naming Things Wrong at 2 AM: Why Azure's Naming Rules Nearly Broke Me

Three months into my current role, I deployed a storage account at midnight with a name that was one character too long. Azure rejected it silently in the pipeline, and I spent the next hour digging through documentation scattered across five different pages, cross-referencing ch...

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Git

Programming Jul 7, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Wish Someone Had Drilled Package Management Into My Head Before I Went Full-Time DevOps

I remember the exact moment I realized I'd been doing Linux wrong. It was 3 AM, I was debugging a production server in Karachi, and I'd just manually downloaded and compiled some obscure tool from a GitHub repository because I "wasn't sure" if it was in the package repositories....

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Git

AI & Machine Learning Jul 7, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Pretending Fine-Tuning Models is a "Data Scientist Only" Problem

I spent three weeks last year trying to fine-tune a language model for a client's internal documentation system. Three weeks. What should've been a weekend project turned into me wrestling with conflicting PyTorch versions, CUDA compatibility nightmares, and a LoRA configuration...

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AI Agents Git

Web Development Jul 7, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Reaching for Plugins: Why I Built My Own Newsletter Popup

I was sitting in a client call last month, listening to them complain about their homepage loading in 4+ seconds. Divi was already eating their budget. Their theme had three popup plugins installed. Three. Each one was "just for testing" but none of them were ever disabled. When...

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JavaScript Git

DevOps & Cloud Jul 6, 2026 • 4 min read

Why I Finally Stopped Overthinking Container Deployments and Just Used Lightsail

I spent three years overthinking my deployment strategy. EC2 with auto-scaling groups, ECS clusters, Kubernetes on EKS, I'd read every architectural decision document and convinced myself that anything less was "not production-ready." Then I deployed WordPress on a single Lightsai...

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